Dylan Jarrett

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
252-328-6529 (phone)
jarrettd22@ecu.edu
Bate 3315 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Education

PhD Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
MA Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington
BA Spanish, Furman University

Areas of Interest

Syntactic and semantic change in Romance
Language variation and change in Spanish
Experimental pragmatics and typologies of meaning
(Im)politeness
US Spanish

Courses Taught

SPAN 6003: Applied Research Methods
SPAN 4330: Spanish in the United States
SPAN 3310: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
SPAN 1001-2003: Spanish Levels I-III

Publications

Escalona Torres, J. M., Jarrett, D., and Díaz-Campos, M. A. (2025). “Expressing future tense in Spanish: A cross-dialectal comparative analysis”. Spanish in Context. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.22016.esc)
Jarrett, D. (2024). The acceptability of epistemic adverbs in intersubjective contexts: Consideration of epistemic de pronto in Colombian Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics, 234, 19-33. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216624001917)
Jarrett, D., & Gurzynski-Weiss, L. (2023). Task-specific motivation and development of the Spanish L2 self during domestic immersion. TASK: Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching & Learning, 3(1).
Jarrett, D and Amaral, P. (2023) “Usage-based approaches to historical semantic change” in Díaz-Campos, M. and Balasch, S. (Eds.) The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics. John Wiley and Sons Incorporated.
Amaral, P. and Jarrett, D. (2022). “Causality and the PA/SN distinction”. Linguistics. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0112
Amaral, P., Tian, Z., Jarrett, D. and Escalona Torres, J. M. (2022). “Tracing semantic change in Portuguese: A distributional approach to adversatives”. Journal of Historical Linguistics. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.21028.ama
Gurzynski-Weiss, L., Giacomino, L., and Jarrett, D. (2021). “Examining high school learners’ experience of task motivation and difficulty in a two-week Spanish immersion camp”. In Ahmadian, M., & Long, M. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 566-584). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jarrett, D. (2020). “Developing epistemic meaning: a diachronic study of the Spanish adverb ‘a lo mejor’”. In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (Eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (pp. 215-231). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.